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- Title
New endo-β-1,4-glucanases from the parabasalian symbionts, Pseudotrichonympha grassii and Holomastigotoides mirabile of Coptotermes termites.
- Authors
Watanabe, H.; Nakashima, K.; Saito, H.; Slaytor, M.
- Abstract
An endo-β-1,4-glucanase (EG) was purified from the hindgut of an Australian mound-building termite, Coptotermes lacteus. The hindgut extract had a peak separate from those for extracts obtained from the salivary glands and the midgut based on sephacryl S-200 gel chromatography, and also demonstrated an origin different from the endogenous EGs of the termite itself. The recovery was further purified by SDS-PAGE, and its N-terminal amino acid sequence analyzed. This showed high homology to EGs from glycoside hydrolase family (GHF) 7. PCR-based cloning methods were applied to the hindgut contents of C. lacteus and individual protozoan symbionts from C. formosanus. cDNAs encoding putative EGs homologous to GHF7 members were then identified. The functionality of one of the putative proteins was confirmed by its expression in Escherichia coli.
- Subjects
CELLULASE; CLONING; COPTOTERMES; SALIVARY glands; CHROMATOGRAPHIC analysis
- Publication
Cellular & Molecular Life Sciences, 2002, Vol 59, Issue 11, p1983
- ISSN
1420-682X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/PL00012520